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I would finish your en, then work as an en whilst completing your RN via distance. Once you have completed your RN, then apply for graduate entry midwifery. In nsw at least it is a 0.8 paid position, therefore you could always be working and studying...

Kasey, do you have grad coordinators that can help? Where I work we have 3 and are just a page away. It is hard. I have just started my second rotation & the new ward seems so much more hectic then the previous one. Just remember, nursing i...

They are all much of a muchness really. They all have major specialties, however, if trauma is your thing, rpa, st George & westmead are trauma centres. St Vincent's, rpa and pow do transplant, however rpa has a transplant ward. Pow has spinal. T...

Yep scrubs have been rolled out in all of nsw now. There are a variety of styles though, but all made from the same hot polyester.

They will probably ask 6 questions and you will be interviewed by 2 to 4 people. During my interview I was asked 1) what are my personal & professional strengths. 2) situation question. 3) medication safety/administration. 4) workplace conflict....

I have had pretty good experiences at RPA. I had two educators on my first ward as the first one went on maternity leave. They were all very supportive etc. there are 3 graduate coordinators and they are fantastic as well. I started my second rotati...

As a new grad 3 months into my grad program, I have to agree with others, that asking questions is a good thing. We do not know everything and it is better to ask questions of things you are unsure of rather then jump in hope for the best. Look after...

I'm in week 6 of my new grad and I have had a few crap shifts, but mostly good. Each day I learn something new and make a point of looking at each day as a new learning experience. I get my jobs done etc and am happy with how I am going and have been...

I'm not sure what state you are in, but you can do the course through Oten (online version of Tafe). The course is $793 for the full year + $50 Oten fee + approximately $100 for text books. In my first semester of nursing, I also started doing this ...

I recently started my new grad. I am in Australia and we get basically 7 days. 4 days classroom orientation & 3 days shadowing on the ward then we are off on our own. We get 4 pts on morning and 4-5 on evenings. We do team nursing, so always have...

That's just the paid part, you can also have the unpaid portion of up to 2 years.

Paid mat leave = to 14 weeks pay, it can be taken at 1/2 pay over 28 weeks. 10 sick days and the paid FACS leave (for funerals or other family emergencies etc of family members) which is 4 days in your first year, then 6 for every two years following...

I'm in Australia, so things are a little different here. We have blocks of placement. When it came time for the unit that related to paeds, it was combined with rural health, maternity & community, so we could choose either of these settings to d...

Perfect post Grntea. I remember reading your post about the learning to drive thing. As a new grad on my 5th week, I think half the stress we put ourselves under is because of our own expectations of ourselves. Remember you can do this, it just takes...

Try not to stress to much. I felt the same. In my final 2 semesters of uni, I had 4 weeks of community placement (therefore no patient load, then in my final 12 weeks of uni I had 4 weeks of icu, 2 weeks in maternity & 2 weeks in a elective surgi...

Thanks for the words of encouragement. I have started my new grad in Australia this week. We have had 3 days of corporate orientation/bls assessment. Tomorrow we start 2 days of supernumerary on ward orientation. Next week we have another face to fa...

Has it changed? When I was there a few years ago, we did 3 weeks placement in 1st year, 4 weeks in 2nd year and 12 in 3rd year I think. I left a few weeks before I was due to do the 2 year placement. I knew uni SA didn't have placement until 2nd year...

I have studied at both, started at CDU then changed to Csu. Each Uni has it's good and bad points, but I would take Csu any day. They are much more organised in terms of residential schools and also pracs. They release calendars of when each things a...

It is. I had iv morphine at Christmas when I had cholecystitis. I also had sc morphine post op after having my gallbladder out when the pain was breaking through the endone.

Yep, one of the BP students asked the NUM if there were positions and she said no, they were not taking on anymore full time staff & for people to be sponsored, they had to be full time. They were also trying to looking for other advertised spons...

As Ceridwyn has said, be aware that people are finding it harder to find jobs, especially sponsored positions. On my final uni placement last week, there were about 6 BP students. From what I gathered after talking with one of them, they only had a m...

Wonderful advice and definitely things I can take into practice. I finish my last placement tomorrow and therefore uni as all my final assignments have been submitted. I will be starting a grad program in two months.

I have just paid $157 registration fee for 1 year plus $160 application fee in Australia. We have national registration. It is my first year so I have to pay the application fee as well.

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